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Subject: Re: docs/124949: Discrepancy between handbook and example hosts
file for localhost configuration
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On Sun, 2008-08-03 at 16:32 +0000, trhodes@FreeBSD.org wrote:
> Synopsis: Discrepancy between handbook and example hosts file for localhost configuration
>
> State-Changed-From-To: open->closed
> State-Changed-By: trhodes
> State-Changed-When: Sun Aug 3 16:31:00 UTC 2008
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> I have updated the example in the handbook, thanks for
> bringing this to our attention.
In fact I had hoped to elicit some discussion about whether the default
localhost configuration should include the hostname or not.
As mentioned in the original PR I noticed the $SUBJECT while
investigating a "slow SSH login" issue.
Looking at the CVS history for /src/etc/hosts seems to show that the
addition (and removal) of hostname to localhost has been through a
couple of iterations (starting Nov'95):
Revision 1.11.2.2:
Mon Oct 8 09:32:08 2001 UTC (6 years, 9 months ago) by ru
Branches: RELENG_4
MFC: 1.14: removed `myname.my.domain' as another alias for `localhost'.
Revision 1.14:
Sat Sep 29 12:20:08 2001 UTC (6 years, 10 months ago) by ru
Branches: MAIN
Backout revision 1.9 that added `myname.my.domain' as another alias for
`localhost'. If your /etc/nsswitch.conf has ``hosts: files dns'', and
you changed `myname.my.domain' in /etc/hosts to match hostname(1), and
you run inetd(8) with the -l option, any connect to `myname' using its
real IP address through inetd(8), e.g. `ftp -a myname', will spam your
/var/log/messages with:
inetd[PID]: warning: /etc/hosts.allow, line 23: host name/name mismatch: myname.my.domain != localhost
This is especially bad for -STABLE, where /etc/host.conf defaults to
"files first then DNS" resolution order.
Revision 1.9:
Thu Apr 16 14:37:19 1998 UTC (10 years, 3 months ago) by joerg
Branches: MAIN
Add `myname.my.domain' as another alias for `localhost'. We set this
as the initial generic hostname if the user didn't setup any NIC, but
failure to resolve this name results in XF86Setup not being able to
run.
Revision 1.5.4.1:
Sun Nov 19 17:53:28 1995 UTC (12 years, 8 months ago) by jkh
Branches: RELENG_2_1_0
Put myname.my.domain by default on the loopback, resulting in less confusing
startup behavior for newly installed hosts not on a network.
Google will also pull up suggestions to add hostname to the localhost
config to solve various networking-related "issues".
I guess the upshot of all this is to consider whether it might be useful
to add some text to the handbook discussing when adding (and removing)
hostname to/from the localhost config might be prudent/needed?
Wayne